Judaism

President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Karen Pence attend a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on December 6th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal (right) and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier light Europe's largest menorah during a public ceremony on the first night of Hanukkah, on December 2nd, 2018, in Berlin, Germany.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The Pittsburgh massacre wasn't the first—or last—act of anti-Semitism in the past week.

• By Emma Sarappo

Violence driven by racial or religious hatred is as American as apple pie, according to a cultural anthropologist who has studied the white-power movement.

• By Tom Jacobs

In his two years in office, Trump has done plenty to legitimize views previously considered too extreme for political discourse—and that, in turn, has opened the door for political violence.

• By Jared Keller

People arrive for a vigil at the Allegheny County Soldiers Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 28th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Hasidic Rabbis prepare to pose for a group photo on November 19th, 2017, during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Israeli security forces break up a protest of ultra-Orthodox Jews with water cannons in Jerusalem on October 23rd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A man prays in front of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association Jewish community center during the commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the terrorist bombing attack that killed 85 people and injured 300, in Buenos Aires on July 18th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

After almost three horrific months in Auschwitz, Williams volunteered for a task force and did hard labor for the rest of World War II.

• By Avital Andrews

The tragic history—and scary future—of fake news and anti-semitism.

• By David M. Perry

Which is scarier: an all-powerful deity or your mom?

• By Rick Paulas

The Claremont School of Theology, founded 126 years ago to create Methodist ministers, has plans to train rabbis and imams alongside its Christian preachers. The alliance, Claremont administrators say, will create the nation’s first Islamic seminary, awarding the country’s first graduate degrees in Muslim leadership. But the idea has agitated people inside and outside the institution.

• By Suzanne Sataline